There are several kinds of Google Docs: text documents, spreadsheets, presentations, drawings, and forms. We’ll use a basic text document to show you how to get started with Google Docs. Most of these steps also work for other document types, so learn these tasks and you’re on your way to creating presentations, spreadsheets, forms, and drawings too.

Access your documents

One of the great things about Google Docs is that you can access your documents from any computer, anywhere in the world.

To view a list of documents you own or have access to, or to create a document: